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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

No? Rifling was around muuuch longer than that, but was primarily for specialized divisions (the Kentucky Long Rifle being a notable example). It was becoming more commonly issued at the outset, but at the time, smoothbore muskets were still pretty widely issued due in part to vast stockpiles and sudden need.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure what you're No-ing. Rifling was around longer but the Civil War introduced it as a standard.

    Smoothbore muskets were issued in the Union and Confederate armies during the beginning of the Civil War, though both armies quickly adopted a rifled musket; this was the first time in military history that most infantry soldiers were equipped with a rifled musket

    https://historymaking.org/textbook/items/show/275

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Rifling wasn't invented until right before the Civil War.

    My bad, I took this bit to be saying that rifling was new to the scene, rather than new to industrial-scale manufacture.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago*

    Oh yeah. My bad. I guess I said that wrong. There were more advances in the rounds that made the rifling better, but I was trying to simplify it.

    I was interested in the Civil War cause the weapons advanced faster than the way we fight wars. You wouldn't see people lining up and walking toward another army now.

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